Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 435-439, November 2000

Explaining the variety of human sexuality

US Public Health Service, USA

Received 24 May 1999; accepted 29 November 1999.

Abstract 

In this paper, the author formulates a theory to explain why human sexual orientation seems to run amok. The ‘psychic instrument’, as he terms it, is the baby’s dreaming mind which interprets or misinterprets input from its sociocultural sexual environment. The baby, already born an omnisexual being, then develops a fantasy life with socially sanctioned or unsanctioned fetishes which are likely to be expressed when certain triggering situations arise.

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PII: S0306-9877(00)91084-3

doi:10.1054/mehy.2000.1084

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 435-439, November 2000

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